If Steam go bankrupt, what about my games=?

[ELCAMARADA]

Can you help me?I lose my games or i can download and play offline ?

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i think someone buys them and they change their name to epic

[󠀡󠀡󠀡⁧⁧the.jester]

What if it's someone other than epic? Perhaps "More Epic Games"?

[MonkehMaster]

then from what i have read in other threads, steam releases drm and we get all of are games.

dont know how true it is but thats what i have seen posted before.

just google this...

" what happens to our games if steam ever went out of business? "

(without the quotes).

[Start_Running]

Assuming they aren'ta bsorbed into another company, which would likely be the case, the predonmionant theory is that they will release an update that short-circuits the drm. IN any other sceneriio, like their assets bieing acquired by another company, then that will be up to the new company which will assume the previous responsibilities of Valve.

Though I suspect any economic calamity capable of sinking a company like Valve woyuld probably leave you with more important concerns -- like "Have I stockpiled enough food water and amoo)

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Some Valve official reportedly once said that if Steam ever shuts down they'll give everyone the ability to play their games without needing to deal with Steam servers.

But the more likely scenario is that someone buys up this massive userbase and operates a new set of Steam servers. Beyond that, if they change things, who knows what'll happen.

May still be useful to back up your games, and get games DRM-free when you can.

[Xaelath]

Originally posted by Grand Ayatrollah:

i think someone buys them and they change their name to epic

Epic is unlikely as someone who could buy steam,

The one who could do it are,
Sony and Microsoft, Tencent is also on top list.

These are the true industry Giant, Epic only have Unreal and a dying Fortinite game in their wallet.

[RiO]

The problem with Steam/Valve allegedly stripping out the DRM when they're about to keel over, is that it is a clear signal flare that they are about to keel over. Iirc it is illegal in at least a few countries where Steam does business, to inform the general public about such a thing in advance.

So at best they'd drop the DRM silently without a lot of coverage or reason given a few days in advance only, meaning once the general Steam user populace would realize what's up, you'd have maybe 2 days left to stockpile your downloads for future safe-keeping. Well... good luck with getting that done when every Steam user everywhere is hitting the download servers hard.


Realistically though, Steam won't croak. It'll just be bought up by the competition.

[Winnie]

if they go bankrupt. they have the right the remove everything EXCEPT download features.

yes, you still own your games, and can download and play your games. digital ownership is a thing btw, look it up.
Idk how this will work tho, but Steam have to do this if it ever gonna happen, because if they dont, you have the right to sue it.

this exception ofc, being live service games, which if the server/provider is gone then so your games. SP games is 100% you owned

[Xaelath]

Originally posted by Grand Ayatrollah:

steam should sell out to microsoft now while their company is still worth enough to get picked up by someone who can keep steam the way it is. if they wait for epic to take 1/3 of their business (current business), and show gog or someone else how to take the other third, they WILL get bought out by someone like sergey, and we WILL lose our games =)

Only CDPR can keep the way steam as it is.
Microsoft? Not so much

Epic? EVEN WORSE.

[Spawn of Totoro]

No, Valve is not going bankrupt.